Micah 3:2

New International Version

you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the wrath of the Lord is on you.

Psalm 15:4

who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind;

Psalm 53:4

Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

Ezekiel 11:7

“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

Ezekiel 24:4

Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones;

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 2:8

Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Luke 19:14

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

John 18:40

They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

Romans 1:32

Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,